It’s hard to imagine Kim Kardashian being married to anyone but Kanye West. However, she’s been married not just once, but twice before him. Each marriage for Kardashian has been completely different from the other, and they help us see how much she and West are truly meant to be together. Here’s an inside look at each of Kardashian’s three marriages.
Damon Thomas
Most people don’t even realize Kardashian was ever married to
music producer Damon Thomas. They wed in 2000, when Kardashian was just 19
years old (and Thomas was 29). While they separated in 2003 and were
officially divorced in 2004, it wasn’t revealed until 2010 just how
tumultuous their marriage really was.
In their divorce papers, Kardashian detailed how controlling and
abusive he had been to her. “Damon decided what we would do and when we
would do it,” she wrote. “He was very much the ‘king of the castle.’”
Kardashian
also claimed he was the one to pressure her into her first plastic surgeries
to make her “perfect.” Things got even worse, however, as Kardashian became
the victim of domestic violence. The Daily Mail reported, “Thomas would
punch her in the face, slam her against walls and throw her across the room,
leaving her bruised and battered.”
Thomas has since denied these allegations, but the words he’s
used to describe his ex-wife certainly didn’t help his case. He told In
Touch magazine, “Kim is obsessed with fame. She can’t write or sing or
dance, so she does harmful things in order to validate herself in the media.
That’s a fame-whore to me.”
Kris Humphries
It’s safe to say Kardashian’s marriage to Kris Humphries was
over before it began. They started dating in 2010, and by 2011, they were
engaged. Humphries proposed to Kardashian with a whopping 20.5 carat ring
(and the whole thing was filmed for Keeping Up With the Kardashians). So, of
course, Kardashian said yes. They tied the knot in August 2011 — but it
didn’t take long for Kardashian to realize she’d made a mistake.
Apparently, she realized their relationship was doomed on their
honeymoon. During an appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen,
Kardashian got totally candid about her 72-day marriage. An audience member
asked the reality star which was her least-favorite of Keeping Up With the
Kardashians spin-offs.
Kardashian didn’t hesitate to answer:
“When Kourtney and I did New York because I was in that awful cry face with
that last marriage I had. That whole situation was just really hard for
me.”
“At the time I just thought, ‘Holy sh*t, I’m 30 years old — I
better get this together,” she explained. “I better get married. I think a
lot of girls do go through that, where they freak out thinking they’re
getting old and all their friends are having kids. So, it was more of that
situation. But I knew on the honeymoon it wasn’t going to work out.”
Kanye West
It was a long road for Kardashian to end up with Kanye West,
but it seems like they were destined to be together eventually. They started
dating in 2012, but they first met way back in 2003 and had been friends
since. Even if West was smitten with Kardashian for years, it’s best that
they only started dating when they did.
Kardashian admitted, “I think I had to go through that [breakup with
Kris] to figure out what I wanted. After my breakup, I was feeling really
low and down and he said, ‘Just come to Paris and see my fashion
show.’”
They got married in 2014, and have since become parents of
three to North, Saint, and Chicago. Although divorce rumors have popped up a
few times over the years, they keep proving to be a perfect match for each
other.
